Example sentences of "in [art] few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
| 2 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 3 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 4 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 5 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 6 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 7 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 8 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 9 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 10 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 11 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 12 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 13 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 14 | In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets . |
| 15 | In a few moments they heard a car start up and drive away . |
| 16 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 17 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 18 | In a few days they 'll be back here begging us for food . ’ |
| 19 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 20 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |
| 21 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 22 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |